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NOVEMBER 20
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members of too Jjar and officers of ilie Supremo
TeXtisJntHftfpityof Attstifi on the 8ih dhof
Hon. Gliomas J. Jbnnitfs-s. Attornev-Gerteral.
tRcso'ltitiotts ofitiielSifyrcruc CottrttJJar upon the death bfthc lion.
' "'t'i J.icnry:uiayunu mc jion. jjainct vcosicrh
At a meeting' o tlic
Gotlft Of l!l(jlStA(6 Of
NoVembcr5.- lS52i tho
.wViiffipiwIbted chairman WMTBhtr!?'. Marshall ecretarV
J7he chairman appointed the Hbn. George W. Pne'ctml Andrew X
iJIamilton jEkj.(innd the Hon. Thomas 11. Duval a committo to pre-
parcVesoUt'tions expressive of tlio sciitimclits and feelings entertained
a ''by tho-meeting in regard to the denth of the distinguished Jurist and
''Statesmen Henry Clay and Daniel JVcbstcr
' Whore upon the Committee presented the following resolutions
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tvnibii. kiiu uiiiinriiiuiiHiy miopicu ny mo mccung :
Resolved That in the death or thd Hon. Henry Clay nndrtho Hon.
Daniel Webster tlio bar of iho United States has lost lit the one
A0?'8 h?fl eIoclc"t and distinguished qrator in the other her
- ii!ou!lu' Jwrist olid abje. advocate-. Their. enthusiastic zoai
flOrpaesfriV-nulli'tics and long" lives devoted to '-the service or their
6unVry?'iiad;glvfeh4 them a' "world-wide famed rnnde them a mi-
' tlbti's'propbrty. But as hi that wcll-won famelflteBor had a peculiar
miterest sb-in their death has it sustained a cbrrespbuding loss!
"1 Q$Plvctt' T'int tm'8 meeting sincerely deplore tlft decease of these
. distinguished jtlrlsts and statesmen and thhtftlio rtumihi.rs rif this
.OBnfc.and officers of this Court will Wear thb Ugol.lQnj of nioiirnih"
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'"-v-w j.uut.iim nuirmnn. nnu secretary 'transmit a copy of
iiem ot
Court tha these resolutions be ent6red in iho Minute's of tliSh-rom.
cowlings. THOMAS J. JENNINGS' ChairuTdh.
iJbiw F. Mahskam. Sccrctary;!S ''''-
- jVlr. Attbriicy-General Jciinuigson presenting the above resolutions
to the 'Court on the 12lj spokq.os follows: . .
I havo been requested to present to your honors a series of Iteco-
..lutiohs adopted nt a mcting of-thojnonibers of tleI3ar and ofHccrs
of this Court expressive of their admirjition of the cliaracters nnd of
theirJgraHtudb for the public services of IicnryJJJay aud Daniel
Webster.- t '
ln. discharging tills painful duty wliil.b minding our crier with
uiuv .uium vuuiiuuii couiury nnu weeping tvtu n Mighty Nation
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For llie Toxns Sta'.D Gazette.
Tlio Fast Present arid Future
Softly ns from tlio setting sun
Rs.ya of brightness sttenin : .
Sweetly ns when tlio silver moon
Shells its gentle beam:
.Fml$ m tnitlniglit'ii wniling wind
OpnssinR zephyr's sigh
Corn4 the thoughts ol by-jrono days
Onmusing memory. " . t
K'en ns the scttirig sunbeam's ray
1 Fndes out upon the sight:
K'en ns sweet Lima's trentte beam
Poles out when pales tho night; s i
K'eu us the evening's sighing b(cozoUu 'te
Kro morning dies nwny: 9t p
Perchance perclmiico inay thtls depart '
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The Gardiner Fraud.
Tho committee appointed ntider a resolution of the House of
Representatives to investigntifltho notorious claim of Gardiner
which was allowed by tho Mexican Claim Commission in their
adjudication has made its report confirming the previous sus-
nieions of tho nublic as to tho enormity and turpitude of the
Wufatinf'Nov. 2 1852.
As when tho sun without a cloud
Sets beautiful and clear;
And morning's light .reveals tho shroud
Of storm-cloud's mantle drear ''
As when the evening's balmy breath
Is quenched by -chilling showers;
Thus thus perhaps may clouds and
nwnu our luiure Hours.
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From tho Now York Commercial Advertiser".
Daniel Webster.
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gbaytwo or her most illustrious sons have been trfrri rrQm her by the
fttbii grasp or irresistible Death tfiid can rcttirn'nB mqre" we feel a
melancholy pride in remembering that they wore ourbrcthercn and-in.
.asking that this humble trjbttto.of opr grateful esteemfand rernrd for
TilfltTl Willi litrtr.ri niwl rY -. -
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s nnu ui um vcnuianuu mr inoir memories mnv iin
perpetuated in the recorded memorials of this Honorable Court. J3ut
who vonld suppress on this befcasion the liamb bf ifolin C. Calhoun''
Who could sunder in his grieftliat illlistflons trio Clay Webster and
Calhoun nOti? all goiic -who for forty years were grouped together in
the American mind'? Born in tho midst of that revolution which
made their country fr6e. educated by its fathers imbued with the princi-
ples of our government from thq lips of those who laid its fonndn-
: . f"".s o'"0" 'r" youni io oiu agonnu deatji as miijcstic pillars of
tho bousti'tution upon each of which a grateful' country has inscribed
"'Wisdom-" " Stuent.tu" and BkautV" upholding mid ndornui" our
government that greatest Wonder.of the World the Rreat " exper
iment of n mighty people governing llnij'Tisclves. But those august
pillars hav'c rnllen. and are mouldbriug into dust. Their places are
empty and who shall fill them ? Who shall stand where stood tho
Gruat CoMrnbMWBK or the GitE.vr EtfVouNnmt or the Giieat XJp-
HQMER'of tlio Constitution? A molirnltlg Nation answers Who?
f Yes " they dm at their posts" and their last thoughts were or their
"country their whole country nnd nothing but their country."
- To-day wo'arb hero to mourn their loss not even to enumerate their
" public services.
I move that those Itesolutidhs 1$ entered in the minutes or the
Court. ? - ' '. ' :
t 'To which Chier-Jusricc Ii'nnnfiilL respond as folio wsj: N
i' .'Wecordlnlly unite with the .iri&ibera of tho bar in their tribute or
V.lion'orlto-t'lib incmoriei) -or the dedcased. Tliejr greatness as states-
"mon was billy eqimlledby their surpassing eminence as jurists and ad-
vocates. In the midst or their clustering hoilqrs their forensic achieve-
ments constitute not the least or their great triumphs. But tho whole
nation in all its classes' has. fait their loss. The august deceased were
full qf years but theirjginV .intellects were still uitdirnmcd Thoir
; public services of a lajtc dato wbio-among tie most illustrious of their
?ip! b?l S'0 PlSrS'i&j1111 ntl lho.v jee permitted a "brief space
hdre their future'leryices would have no loss entitled them to the
tonor.antl gratitude of their country. But they are gone; nothinr is
. .ert'but 'their memory aild their illustrious deeds 'These can never bo
orgottcn by tlieir countrymen. They'wjll' briuliten as'tinie rolls on
indrjiistant nges will Kail thesbgreai' compeers as th'd benfcfactors of
tv.yjhcir. country But tlieirVfa"ii?tt'i8 rio-lmiited'totlio confuies'of our
riwn territory' already: if1 illuminates other natioift -nnt'l continents.
filSlf.?raVV! Wl11 )C P0'" by the tears of :iipc only their owii fel-
..low:dtizens but of r.jl lajidn where ibertyis". tippreciaied or services
tpUho'lililnan race.nriTheld in duestimatioh ; jf. is ordered that the
':"tes'olutioils'of the bar bbeiUeYed'upbn the minutes of this court.
;..: 'AFactortllvo Touching CVa;;joriChamphor is a vccetable
um.rsemt-trmisparont and co'!orleis. " It is exceedingly vojntile!
lieri.o.'Josed to tlm:air it fllesoff-ihVApior;. Ou account of its strong
and aromatic smell it is much iwnl to preserfo pabinevts and clothes
froiji inbtharid other insects .ioin itf strongsiueil. has arisen tiio
!? .jUt".'." rreservntivo ngajiist infectious disqrders but as it 'is
bitter taste. If small fchavinJrs of cairinhor are thVown mi thfe snrfnt-.n
Qf. perfectlycleaii water in rt large basin the pieces immediately be-
5ir? t0 ll)byo rapidly some round on their centres oihers from place to
. P.!a?&(.Kyn?- ' f lloso motions is unknown.- Ciiinphor exists in
Wohave been favore'd with the perusal of a letter written byMr.'
Wcbster"'to an intimate friend in thiscity dated Franklin May 3-
18i6jjrrom which we make the extract below and which we are sure
will be read at this time with unusual interest:.
"I have made satismctory arrangements respecting my house hero
the best ofvhich is that I can leave it where it is and yet bo com-
fortnble notwithstanding the railroad.
! " This house races due North. Its front windows look towards the
river Merrimack. But then the river soon turns to the South so thatJ
the Eastern windows look toward the river also uut tno river nas
fcb deepened its channel in this sttetch or it in the last fifty years thatl
we cannot see its waters without approaching it or going back to tlie
higher lauds behind Us. The history or this change is or considerable
importance in tlie philosophy prstreams. I have observed it practic-
ally and know something of the theory or tho phenomenon ; butl
doubt whether the world will ever bo 'benefitted either by my learn-
ing or my observation in this respect.
" Looking out at the East windows at this moment (2 P. Mi)
with n beautiful sun iust breaking out. mv eve sweens a rich and'leV-
e 1 field of 100 acres.' At the end of it a third of a mild off rsoe.pjaitn
marine grave stones uesignauug me piaces wuuro rupuso;niyiuwiur
my mother my brother Joseph and my sisters Mehitable A$jgajlatd
Sarah; good Scripture names inherited from their Pttrilanccstors.'
''My father ! Ebenezer Webster! born at lingstbn in tlie lower
part of the State in 1739 tlio handsomest man I ever saw except
my brother Ezekiel who appeared to ilie and s'o does he now seem to
me the very finest human form that everj laid eyes on. I saw him
in his coffin a white forehead a tinged cheek a complexion as
clear as heavenly light ! But where am 1 straying? -
" Tho grave has closed upon him as it has On all my brothers and
s.isters. We shall soon bo all together. But this is melancholy and
I leave it. Dear dear kindred blood how I love you all !
" This rair field is before me I could see a lamb on any part br it.'
I have ploughed it and raked it and hoed it but I never mowed it.
Some how I could never leurn to hang a scythe I had not wit enough.
My brother Joe used to say that my father sent me to college in Order
to make me equal to tho rest or the children!
"Ora hot day in July it must have been one or the last years' or
Washimiton's administration I was making hay with my rather just
where 1 now see a remaining elm tree about the middle o(tfie after-
noon. The Hon. Abiel Foster M. C who lived in Canterbury six
miles ofi' called at the holise aud came into the field to See my father.
lie was a worthy man college learned and had been a minister but
was'not a person of any considerable natural powers. My father was
his friend and supporter. He talked awhile in the field and went on
his way. When lie was gone my father called me to him aud we
sat down beneath the elm on a hay cock. He said " My son that
is a worthy man he is a member of Congress he goes to Philadel
phia and gets six dollars a day while T toil here. It is because lie
hnd an education which I never had. If I had' had his early educa-
tion. I should have been in Philadelphia in his place. T. carte near it.
as it was. But I missed it aud now I must work hero." " My dear
father" said I " you shall not work. Brother and I will work for
you and wear our hands out and you shall rest" audi remember to
have cried aud I cry now at the recollection. " My child." said he
"it is qf no importance to mc I now live btt for my children; I
could not give your elder brother the advantages of knowledge butl
can do something for you. Exert yourself improve your oppbrtiini-
ties leant learn and when I am gone you will not need to go
through the hardships which I have uudergbne and which have made
me an oldjnau before my time."
The next May he took me to Exeter to the .Philips JiiXCter Aeau-
oiuy placed me under the tuition of its excellent preceptor Dr. Ben-
jamin Abbott still hv'ing.
My father died in April 1806. I neither left him nor forsook
him. My opening an olfico at Buscowan was.that I might be near
him I cloied his eyes in this very house He died at sixty-seven
years'or age at'ter a lifc or exertion toilVaiid exposure a private sol-
dier an oHicer a legislator a judge everything that a man could be
to whom learning never had disclosed Her " ample page."
v(' My ilrst speech at the bar was mode when ho was on the bench
'he never heard me a second time."
11 He hnd in him what I recollect to havo been tlie character of some
or the old Uuritans. Ho was deeply religious but not sour on the
contrnry rood-humored facetious showing even in his ago with a
contagious laugh teeth ull as white ns alabaster -gen tie soft play-
I'nl and yet having a heart in him that he seembd toibave borrowed
from a lion. He could frown ; a frown it was but cheerrulness good
humor and smiles composed his most usual aspect. '
v "Ever truly your friend Dan'l. Wehstek"
-jw.iiis uiem m a still
ttveot liortieo and Sumatra. The'camnhor isoluninpfl hv snlitthm
j open thb.tceo when it is fquml in largo pieces iff tiib interior.
ti9 She took j?fl? hor
always 6tul thdm
all females. I did
. -;Ki" m iwJ. HM.LilMlofWviJine' iuactuere;a uesotno
i :"l$'i$jSiu cotiia bo.somp of bothies."
iSSS cdotV illustrativo of railroad facility is
0very.ppi.nt6d. A.trayollQr'innfcdvof a uegroiho fjistanco to
m'c&rramVnnfc. "Dalondlicrcjurfs&os 'replied the
' rkev:. ". if vou guni "foot "i't'lTfteSpu Smm W : it
5a day; butyonf ifcM mwMahimtaW
Scarcity op Silvur. Coin.--TIio icareity orsilrer cOimis a subject
or general complaint all over the country. In Washington: city mon-
oy dealers are selling silver change at 3.J per cent nnd much or it too
old nnd half 'worn Spanish coin not worth in facj two-thirds or .its
nominal value. A similar scarcity of silver coin exists iu-Europe aud
tho London Times of tlie Gth uh. says:
"It is "with much dilfioulty that the bankers in the city and West
End can obtain silv.er currency to any amount either at the Bank of
England or the ltoyal Mint to .accommodate their correspondents in
the different parts of the United Kingdom with silver coinage. At
Birtp jughain Manchester Liverpool and other large commercial towns
the demand nt the various banks for silver is so great that they are
unable to supply parlies with more than 100 to 200 as not only isti
vast quantity being shipped off lb Australia and India but" tlie do-inauds-Tdr
siK'er bullion uud specie for France" Belgium Holland
Hamburg .and the continent are also very extensive. In consequence
ot tins immeuso call for silver it appears that the authorities at tho'
(jfofjinteiuj having -a considerable nmonnt immediately coined into
cieaudikewisefgod:ourroncyof. Ihuirsavoreigns and sovereigns
lor iho couvenienco'brtho emigrants .who are placed in trreat difficul
ties from the want ora small circulating medium in exchange for gold."
picions of tho public as to tho enormity
whole transaction. " .
It will be in the reccollcction of our readers thaythis com-
mittee of .Congress was not only authorized to examine into and re-
port upon tho claim of Gardiner but to inquire whether Mr
Thos. Corw'm the present Secretary of thcTrcasury of tho Uni-
ted States was implicated and in what manner and to what
extent in the minus alleged to nave ueen comuuueu uy saiu
Gardiner in tho claim in question.
It is not our purpose nor our disposition to pronounce an
opinion advorso to a party accused of crime and yet untried
upon evidence however strong of an ex parte character; such
proceeding being according'to our notions most reprehensible;
lit the same time wo do not consider wo are under obligations to
obsorve silence in regard to Mr. Corwin who as a Senator of
tho United States permitted himself to got mixed up aud en-
tangiou in tins uisgiacouu uinnr.
.Tlm nnmmittfiR. it is true does not find Mr. Corwin eruiltvof
'atvy crime nor does it impute to. him connivance with Gardiner
vbr other persons to detraud tno iTOvernmeiu; novortneiess wo
ii'dMHlifit nothing. can bo more dangerous to tho purity impar-
tiaytyVa;id justice of legislation' than this practice of both
whig amd democratic members of Congress to undertake
the prosecution' of individual claims against tlie Government
TosiTc1i-an oxtent is this practice now carried in connection
witlftthe' steam contract jobs that so wo havo been informed
rapid fortunes are readily mado therefrom in Washington
and that irjany members of Congress who at home were mis-
erable pettifogging county court lawyers return after a session
or two laden down with spoils acquired from these sources
alone. This is corroborative of the opinion expressed at Rich-
mqnd irginia by Mr. Venablo" who stated that any job
howeverc corrupt or disgraceful could be carried through Con-
gress if the' parties interested would only expend money enough
lor thepurpose.
Take this matter of Gardiner. Wo find from tho report be-
fore usl;hat from the presentation of the Gardiner claim before the
Commisioners grave doubts existed as to its justice and validi-
ty. .Bjiunerons hints were given many intimations made that
tlie claim' was simulated ; still it does not appear that Mr. Cor-
win. a Senator of the United States and the retained counsel
for Gardiner and who was consequently likely to bo well in-
formed of tho oxisfeftceof these rumors and tho weak points-
in his client's cas'df over doubted tho propriety of his engaging
in its advocacy 'or of ''purchasing an eighth interest nv tho
same! v Wo connot jma'gino how it is possible to avoid censur
ing cojiunub ui hub uiiiiriiuior JuoKingiiL mo position oi jur. uor-
win as a Senator and the influence and facility that position un-
doubtedly gave him to .gloss over the improprieties eithorheor
others might be guilty of in presenting claims'against the Govern-
ment particularly when tho administration of public affairs
was in the hands of political friends- who would naturally not
be dispose'd to axamine with too critical an eye matters man-
aged under such auspices. We do not pretend to say whether
Mr. Corwin will give up the enormous sum paid to him by the
notorious Law of New York for his' interest in tho Gardiner
affair ; we think it is probable that he will hold on to' tho ill-cotton
pelf but in any event publicodium cannot fail moroorless to
atttach to him ; for disguise it as he may it is a dirty business
unworthy ot him as a lawyer disreputable to him as a Senator
and not a little disparaging to him as a gentleman and a man
of integrity. Unclean-transactions by which men are enriched
inay be and doubtless arc considered equally smart and laud-
able in the region of Washington ; but wo are much mistaken
if tho people generally have not other notions of them and
will make thoso notions understood and respected whether a
Corwin or a Gardiner bo the tarnsgressor. iy. O. True JDel(a.
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Manufacturing Enterprise.
The following eloquent extr'act is from a speech made at the
recent agricultural fair in Northampton Massachusetts by the
Hon. Edward Everett:
"Sir Walter Scott in one of his poems makes the old Monk
of Molrose say to William of Deloraine whp had come to get
tho magic book from tiro tomb of the wizard
' Warrior I could sny to thee
Tho words that cluft Eldon hills in tlireo
And bridled the Tweed with u curb of stone.1
. "What the -words were that cleft Mount llolyoke and Afount
lom in twain is Known muy to xiim ny wnom tlio overJastin-
mountains were scattered.' But 1 can t.oll you sir the words
that have bridled the noble river that flows between them with
a curb of stone and have taught it instead of wasting itself
on tho points of jagged barren rocks and brawling leclges to
pour through copious floodgates over the untiring wheels of
productive industry. "JChese mighty words are Enterprise
Capital and Mechanical Skill Enterprise to conceive the plan'
Capital to furnish the meansj and Engineering Skill to accom-
plish the work It is these and not the fabled powers of ne-
qromancy that havo planted themselves below tlio falls at
Hadloy have taught the mighty river to flow backwards from
before tlieir gigantic masonry and thus laid tho foundations of
a city which will yot with its suburbs 6pread for miles aloli"
tho bank and be felt in tho enhanced value.of every farm in the
country. '
" I wish I was a ghost blamed if I don't" said a poor covey
tho other niglrt ns lie satsoliloquising in. tho cold. "They goes
whereevor they please toll free; they don't owe nobody noth-
ing and that's a comfort. Whoever hoard toll of a man who
lujd a bill against a ghost ? Nobody. They never buy hats and
witals nor licker. nor has to saw wood nor run on arrants as 1
do. Their shirts never gets dirty nor their trowsers out at tho
knees as I ever hearn tell oh. Ghosts is the only independent
pooplo I knows on. I raly wish I was one."
An auctioneer was selling a lot of land for agricultural pur-
poses. u Gentlemen" saidlie " this is the most delightful land.
It is tho easiest! land to cultivate in Massachusetts it's eo light
so very light. Mr. Parker here -will corroborate my state
mentno owns tno next 'patch and ho wjlltoil youjiow easy
ia)Vorked." " Yes gentlemen " said.Mr. Parker tf it 'is very
teasy to ' work it. but iiOTplaguy 'light' 'easrortoalher the
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